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Innovative Approaches to Teaching Sedimentary Geology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology

University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN
St. Paul Minnesota, United States
16 - 20 January 2014

Deadlines Abstract submission: The abstract submission deadline has passed Registration: Registration is now closed Official website http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/sedimentary/SGP2014/index.html

This workshop will bring together faculty who teach courses in sedimentary geology, geomorphology, paleontology, marine geology, and paleoclimatology to address questions of how to teach these disciplines most effectively at the undergraduate level. What innovative strategies can we use to integrate aspects of all of these disciplines into the courses that we teach for majors? How can we help students develop a more integrated approach to understanding processes and addressing research questions within and between these fields? What knowledge and skills in these areas are particularly critical for undergraduate geoscience majors? What are the over-arching methodologies that we should be teaching our students who wish to pursue future interdisciplinary work in these areas? This workshop will be an exciting collaborative effort that will address these and related issues in order to help faculty teach undergraduates these disciplines most effectively. This workshop follows on previous successful On the Cutting Edge "Teaching XYZ" workshops that address the individual disciplines themselves but that focus especially on the intersections and synergies among and between disciplines (e.g., Teaching Hydrogeology, Soils, and Low-T Geochemistry, Teaching Structural Geology, Geophysics, and Tectonics and Teaching Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry). Participants will also help to build and review the On the Cutting Edge online collection of teaching materials and resources.